Quick travel: The poor little thing in the period novel strikes back

"Not bad, let's keep up the good work in the future."

Huo Ming's expression was somewhat meaningful. Huo Cheng, who had been feeling smug, froze and focused all his attention on his elder brother.

"Brother, what do you mean by keep up the good work? I will not be the one to mop the floor and clean the tables and chairs from now on, right?"

"Don't you need to eat in the future?"

Huo Ming did not directly answer his younger brother's question, but Huo Cheng already understood what his elder brother meant:

If you want to eat for free, you have to work every day!

Huo Cheng could only accept his fate.

"Okay, let's eat. Don't we still need to study after dinner? Come on, sit down."

Hearing that he had to study, Huo Cheng became even more desperate. He could only turn his grief and anger into appetite. Today, Shi Yan specially made two more dishes, which were also swept away by Huo Cheng.

"I am full?"

After Huo Ming finished his meal, he did not leave the table. Instead, he sent Shi Yan, who was also full, to watch TV. After seeing Huo Cheng finish the last dish contentedly, he started to ask.

"I'm full, bro. I'm going to do my homework now."

"Wait a minute, clear the table and wash the dishes first."

Huo Cheng felt like he was on a pirate ship. If he had known this, he would not have been greedy for a bite of the food cooked by his sister-in-law.

"What's wrong? You don't want to? Your sister-in-law cooks for you, and you mop the floor and wipe the table in return. I spend time tutoring you on your homework, so it shouldn't be a big deal for you to clean up the dishes, right?"

"Besides, I'm not in good health and need to take Chinese medicine to recuperate. The doctor told me to avoid cold water and get more rest. I couldn't bear to see your sister-in-law wash the dishes after cooking, so I did it myself."

"Now that you are the younger brother, you are young and strong, can't you help your brother wash the dishes?"

It was rare to see his brother showing weakness, and when he heard his eldest brother say that he was not feeling well and needed to take Chinese medicine, Huo Cheng couldn't disagree. He nodded quickly and showed concern for his eldest brother's health.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you taking medicine? Does the doctor say it can be cured?"

"The doctor said that I have to take care of her. You know, I am much older than your sister-in-law. I have to start recuperating as soon as possible. Otherwise, in a few years, your sister-in-law will still be like this, but I will look too old. If we go out and say we are a couple, no one will believe it."

Huo Ming said these were just excuses. He just wanted to develop feelings with his girlfriend while Huo Cheng was working, but Huo Cheng was thinking further ahead.

His thoughts twisted and turned, and finally turned into a look of slight pity, which swept three inches below his eldest brother's navel, and then he patted Huo Ming's shoulder in a mature manner.

"Brother, don't worry, I'm here. Hurry up and heat up the medicine and drink it."

Huo Cheng suddenly felt that he had really grown up, and the burden on his shoulders became heavier.

"Well, then you should clear the table. I'm going to heat up the medicine."

Huo Cheng resigned himself to his fate and began to clean the table, while Huo Ming quickly brought out two bowls of medicine from the kitchen. Seeing that it was two bowls of medicine, Huo Cheng was a little surprised and asked casually:

"Brother, why are there two bowls of medicine? Who else wants to drink it? Aren't they for me?"

Huo Ming paused, his expression did not change at all:

"No, the other bowl is for your sister-in-law. I'm not feeling well and need to take medicine. I was afraid your sister-in-law would think too much and dislike me, so I asked the doctor to prescribe some blood-boosting medicine for your sister-in-law, so that I have a reason to take medicine."

"You are the only one who knows this, remember not to tell anyone when you get home!"

Huo Cheng nodded quickly and raised his hand, meaning that he swears.

Huo Ming said that all this was for Shi Yan's own good. He was afraid that if they really didn't have children after marriage, his family would think it was due to his health problems.

Huo Cheng has always been a stickler for words. The more he was told not to speak, the more he would tell his parents after returning home from studying in the evening, without waiting for his father and mother to ask him how his study with Huo Ming went that day, that Huo Ming was in poor health and that his stuff might not be useful.

He even said that in order to have a legitimate reason to take the medicine, his eldest brother tricked his younger sister-in-law into taking the medicine with him, saying that his brother wanted to get married by fraud.

"This, this, what should I do? I told the eldest brother not to study so hard, but you insisted that boys should learn more, do more, and venture out more when they are young. What should I do now? My body has been ruined!"

Mrs. Huo was already exhausted physically and mentally because of Chang Ya Shi's incident today. After hearing what her youngest son said, she was so angry that she hit Mr. Huo, who was still watching TV, several times.

"Don't worry, maybe it's not as serious as Ah Cheng said. Hasn't the old man always been in good health?"

Father Huo grabbed his daughter-in-law's hand and comforted her in a gentle voice.

"Didn't Ah Cheng say that? He has already started taking the medicine, and he even lied to me that he was taking it together when he was younger. What should I do?"

Seeing his mother panic, Huo Cheng knew he was in trouble. He didn't dare to stay in the living room any longer. He went back to the house to get his clothes and went into the bathroom.

"How about this, I'll ask for half a day off tomorrow and go to the factory to talk to the boss. Maybe it's not as serious as you think, so don't worry about it."

"Besides, if the eldest son really can't have children, don't we still have Ah Cheng? When Ah Cheng gets married, if the eldest son wants a child, they can just send one over. If not, Ah Cheng and the eldest son have a close relationship since childhood, so you don't have to worry about no one to take care of the eldest son in his old age."

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. The most important thing is that the eldest brother and the little girl can live well."

While Mr. and Mrs. Huo were still discussing the future of their eldest son, Huo Ming was currently holding his girlfriend's hand and watching Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio together.

At this time, the TV was playing a dark night. A water ghost slowly rose from the pond. The water ghost was surrounded by smoke, and only white could be seen. Coupled with the weird atmosphere, Shi Yan was rarely a little scared.

Although she had fought zombies in the apocalypse, she was still afraid that the TV would suddenly zoom in and a ghost face would appear on the screen, so she subconsciously stretched out a hand and placed it in front of her eyes as if covering her face.

Huo Ming's attention was always on the people around him. He only roughly saw what was on TV. When he noticed that Shi Yan was scared, he reached out and hugged her in his arms in a very manly manner.

"Ahem, don't be afraid, everything on TV is fake."

"Yeah." Shi Yan was a little shy, but still leaned into Huo Ming's arms.

However, the preparations of the two were not of much use. After all, after the smoke on TV cleared, the water ghost was not hideous at all. Instead, he was a beautiful woman with bright eyebrows and white teeth. Her eyes were full of affection and seemed to be coquettish. The male owner, who had just moved into the house, was staring at her.

A single man and a single woman (ghost), somehow they rolled together, luckily the TV show was not too explicit, apart from the ambiguous laughter, one could only see the white mist gradually spreading, but it was this laughter that made the atmosphere between the two people who were tightly dependent on each other become sticky.